How to setup VLC for constant bit rate (CBR)

[MArc]

How to setup VLC for CBR ?
I'm doing streaming to a mobile device over GPRS.

I'm encoding a webcam to a live stream with mp4v , the quality i get is very poor. I'm using VLC 0.8.1 and Streaming server DSS (5.0.3).

How to increase bit rate ? I have set the trancoding bit rate at 16Kb/s but i only receive stream between 10 and 3 Kb/s .

How to setup ffmpeg encoder params to get a better quality ?
Is there somewhere a guide , tutorial or else that speachs about how to setup trancode and ffmpeg params ?

Many Thanks

Marc

[markfm]

You might want to check in on the IRC -- I believe a few people are poking at sending to smartphones.

[mangoo]

How to setup VLC for CBR ?
I'm doing streaming to a mobile device over GPRS.

I'm encoding a webcam to a live stream with mp4v , the quality i get is very poor. I'm using VLC 0.8.1 and Streaming server DSS (5.0.3).

How to increase bit rate ? I have set the trancoding bit rate at 16Kb/s but i only receive stream between 10 and 3 Kb/s .

How to setup ffmpeg encoder params to get a better quality ?
Is there somewhere a guide , tutorial or else that speachs about how to setup trancode and ffmpeg params ?

Is there a solution to it yet?

When I'm transcoding from a camera which sends mpeg, the transcoded video is of very poor quality (even if I set bitrate to 3072).

When I'm transcoding from a camera which sends MJPEG, the transcoded video is fine.